A low-income energy efficiency program

LICOs are a widely-considered measure of poverty, and vary according to the number of people in the household and the size of the community. [...] The OPA may choose to use an income cut-off of 125% or 150% of LICO, but for the purpose of describing the target market we have focused on those households who are A Low-Income Energy Efficiency Program: A report from the Toronto Environmental Alliance to the Ontario Power Authority below LICO, as they are the population that is most in need of energy assistance and who should be part of any prog [...] In recognition of the problem of energy poverty and the barriers to improving energy efficiency facing low-income households, the provincial government had directed the Ontario Power Authority to develop a low-income Conservation and Demand Management (CDM) program that will reduce overall demand and consumption by residents of low- income and social housing by 100 megawatts. [...] The 100 megawatt target, however, meshes well with our proposed goal of eliminating energy poverty, as we will demonstrate below in the discussion of the target market (where the size of the program that is likely required to achieve 100 megawatts of reductions is roughly comparable to the number of households currently living in energy poverty). [...] One of the most significant side-benefits of establishing a low-income energy efficiency program in the United States has been the creation of the capacity to serve the rest of the residential markets.